| ▲ | adriancr 12 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> aren’t native English speakers Where does it state this? Do you assume that all immigrants are non-native english speakers? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Retric 11 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
By coming from different country their native language (IE what language they heard as infants) more closely resembles that country than America. Note I said 47 million and there are more than 47 million immigrants. There are also some native born Americans to immigrants who also don’t have English as their first language and People born in China whose first language is English, but that’s ever smaller refinements on a specific estimate. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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